The first machine of its kind – hybrid electric logging yarder

T-Mar Industries Ltd, a Canadian manufacturer that specialises in building machines for the forestry industry, has developed the first ever hybrid electric logging yarder.

“This is the first machine of its kind anywhere,” says Tyson Lambert, VP of T-Mar Industries Ltd. A logging yarder is a crane like machine that has been used in the industry more than a century. “It’s basically a zipline for logs,” adds Lambert. “You put a log yard in a logging setting that’s inaccessible to machinery.”

Called the 7280E Hybrid Electric Drive Yarder, it has taken T-Mar five years to develop, and uses electric drives that share power back and forth like a hybrid vehicle.

“(It’s) very different from a traditional machine where it’s all mechanically linked and gears and clutches have to engage to make everything work,’ says Philip Biebach, mechanical engineer for T-Mar Industries Ltd.

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Source: CTV News